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READER: 

This  brief  working  refutation  of  Christian 
Science  contains  samples  of  contents  of  my  larger 
book  written  but  not  yet  published. 

Presented  on  request  to  THE  O^IIVERSITY 
LIBRARY,  BERKLEY,  GALIF'ORNIA  by  the  AOTHOR, 

Los  Angeles, California,  September  30,1910.^ 


Cbrietian  Science 


AS  IT  tS 


(AN  analysis; 


By 


Samuel  Buisben  Xetson 


Author  of 

'Prince  of  Peace,"      "Going  Home,"     "Dear  Mother  at  the  Door, 

"Sure  Foundation,"   "The  Beautiful  Bethlehem  Star,"  Etc. 


So?      Did  she  find  ^svitnout  a  mmd 
'"'Man  has  no  mmd  but  God    ? 


|^ubllsbe^  bp  tbe  Hutbor, 

Xo5  Bngcleg,  Calttornla 

COPYRIGHT,  1910,  hy  SAMUEL  B.  LETSON 


FIRST     EDITION:     TWENTY    THOUSAND    COPIES 


Contents 


I.  Christian  Science  in  Embryo. 

II.  Christian  Science. 

III.  Plain  Points. 

rV.  First  Fatal  Error  in  Christian  Science. 

V.  To  Reclaim  the  Only  Consciousness. 

VI.  Productive  Myths. 

VII.  The  Utility  of  Myths. 

VIII.  A  Modern  Miracle. 

IX.  Christian  Science  and  Sex. 

X.  Christian  Science  Whirlpool  Basis. 

XI.  ** Chief  Stones  in  the  Temple  of  Christian  Science." 

XII.  Her  '^AU"  an  Idol. 

XIII.  God  AU-Inclusive. 

XIV.  What  the  Christian  Science  God  Cannot  Do. 

XV.  How  Christian  Science  Contradicts  the  Bible  Regarding 

God. 

XVI.  How  Christian  Science  Contradicts  the  Bible  Regarding 

Christ. 

XVn.  Christian  Science  Declared  To  Be  the  Holy  Ghost. 

XVIII.  She  Claims  To  Excel  Christ. 

XIX.  ^  The  Coming  of  Christ  a  Myth. 

XX.  Man  a  Mere  Idea  and  Matter  a  Mere  Thought. 

XXI.  Evil  Is  Belief  In  Anything  Besides  God. 

XXII.  Non-Existent  ''Erring  Mind." 

XXIII.  ''Right  To  Be  Sick." 

XXIV.  Varied  Falsehoods. 

XXV.  What  Can  a  Christian  Scientist  Know? 

XXVI.  Does  a  Law  of  God  Produce  Sickness? 
XXVn.  Five  "Erroneous  Postulates." 

XXVIII.  "Mother  of  Christian  Science"  Affirms  and  Denies  that 
Sin,  Sickness,  and  Death  are  realities. 

Christian  Science  as  It  Is. 


XXIX.  Neither  Matter  nor  Spirit  In  Man. 

XXX.  The  Curo  for  Nothingness. 

XXXI.  Christian  Science  Both  Affirms  and  Denies  the  Reality 

of  Sin. 

XXXII.  Sin  and  No  Sin,  Death  and  No  Death. 

XXXIII.  The  Bible  Declares  That  God  Forgives  Sin. 

XXXIV.  Mother  of  Christian  Science,  Make  Good  or  Be  Con- 

victed of  Fraud  on  This  Point. 

XXXV.  Christian  Science  Denies  the  Death  and  Resurrection 

of  Jesus. 

XXXVI.  Christian  Science  Would  Abolish  Marriage. 

XXXVII.  The  Bible  on  Marriage. 

XXXVIII.  Essence  of  Christian  Science. 

XXXIX.  Corner  and  Cuj'e  of  Sin,  Sickness  and  Death 

XL.  God  Was  Sick.  God  the  Only  Sinner.    God  Is  Dead. 

XLI.  Impossible  to  Follow  Both  Christ  and  Christian  Science 

In  the  Matter  of  Prayer. 
XLII.  "Disbelief  Destroys  Error." 

XLIII.  Spiritual  Sense. 

XLIV.  Perpetual  Motion. 

XLV.  Future  Revelations  of  Interest. 

XLVI.  Did  the   Founder  of  Christian  Science  Drink  Large 

Doses  of  Morphine  with  no  Effect? 
XL VII.  Where  Is  Her  Omniscience? 

XLVIII.         Incomprehensible  Mystery. 
XLIX.  Christian  Science  Against  the  Bible. 

L.  Christian  Science  as  Others  See  It. 

LI.  McCorkle's  View  of  Christian  Science. 

LIL  Do  Christian  Scientists  Tell  the  Truth?  r*>fiscK.M;!y  ?* 

LIII.  Brief  Analysis  of  Christian  Science. 

LIV.  God's  Mistake. 

LV.  Christian  Science  Is  False  or  the  Bible  is  a  Farce  and 

Jesus  Christ  a  Fool. 
LVI.  Buried  in  the  Last  Ditch. 

LVII.  Pen  Pictures  of  Christian  Science. 


Christian  Science  as  It  Is. 


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PIRIT,  God,  is  All"  425  (20).*     ''He  is  the  only  Spirit'' 
73  (11,  12). 

"God,  good,  is  the  only  Mind"  469  (13).    ''In  fact,  all  is 
Mind"  371   (2). 
^" There  is  no  finite  soul  or  spirit"  466  (21).    "Man  has  no  mind 
but  God"  319  (19). 

"Man  is  the  idea  or  reflection  of  Spirit"  478  (27,  28).    • 
"The  real  man  cannot  depart  from  holiness"  475  (29). 
"All  that  really  exists  is  in  and  of  God"  340  (13). 
^-^"God,  Spirit,  is  all,  there  is  no  matter"  421  (17,  18). 
"To  Infinite  Spirit  there  can  be  no  matter"  75  (11). 
"Matter  is  unknown  in  the  infinitude  of  Mind"  280  (1). 
"All  that  is  real  is  included  in  this  Mind"  399  (30). 
^  "God,  Spirit,  being  all,  nothing  is  matter"  113  (18). 
'iThere  is  but  one  mind  or  intelligence"  216  (12). 
'^"That  God  and  man  co-exist,  is  fully  sustained  by  spiritual  sense" 
471   (15). 

"The  spirituality  of  the  universe,  including  man,  is  the  only  fact 
of  creation"  471   (18,19). 

"The  creative  Principle,  Life,  Truth  and  Love,  is  God"  502  (27, 
28). 

"Life  is  divine  Principle,  Mind.  Soul,  Spirit,  without  beginning 
and  without  end"  468  (26,27). 
.^  "Spirit — the  synonym  of  Mind,  Soul,  or  God — is  substance;  that 
is  the  only  real  substance"  468  (20,  21). 

"The  foundation  of  evil  is  laid  on  a  belief  in  something  besides 
God"  92  (26,  27). 
^       "God  being  everywhere  and  all-inclusive,     *  *     how  can  there 
be  more  than  alir  287  (14,  16). 

v^"  Christian  Science  rests  on  the  conception  of  God  as  all  Life, 
U^^substance  and  intelligence"  185  (18,  20). 

"Intelligence  is  omniscience  and  omnipresence  and  omnipotence. 
It  is  the  infinite  Mind,  the  triune  Principle — or  Life,  Truth,  Love — 
called  God"  469  (9,  11). 
^    "In  reality  there  is  no  evil"  311   (6). 

"The  basis  of  all  health,  sinlessness,  and  immortality  is  the  great 
fact  that  God  is  the  only  Mind;  and  this  Mind  must  be  not  merely 
believed,  but  understood"  339  (25,  28). 

"GOD  IS  ALL  AND  THERE  IS  NO  OTPIER  CONSCIOUSNESS" 
492  (25)  and  536  (9). 

No  other  page  known  to  me  presents  so  much  that  is  fundamental 
in  "Christian  Science." 

Without  the  propositions  presented  above,  "Christian  Science" 
could  not  be. 
There  is  no  proof  that  "Christian  Science"  is  true. 
Eveiy  created  thing  in  the  universe  shows  that  "Christian  Sci 
ence"  is  FALSE. 

*425  (20)  means  page  425  and  line  20  of  "Science  and  Health"  of  1904 

Christian  Science  as  It  Is. 


Iprobuctive  flD^^tbs 


^•P^HAT  "mortal  mind  claims  to  govern  every  organ  of  the  ma- 
il  terial  body,  we  have  overwhelming  proof.  But  this  so- 
^^*^    called  mind  is  a  'myth'  "  151  (31,  32)  and  152  (1,  2). 

**  Mortal  mind  constructs  a  machine,  manages  it,  and  then  calls 
it  material." 

"A  mill  at  work,  or  the  action  of  a  water-wheel,  is  but  a  deriva- 
tive form,  and  continuation  of  the  primitive,  mortal  mind-force. 
Without  this  force  the  body  is  devoid  of  action"  399  (18,  22). 

''How  can  I  heal  the  body,  without  beginning  v/ith  mortal  mind, 
which  directly  controls  it?"  400  (1,  3).  (Mind,  "myth,"  mere  noth- 
ing, "controls"!) 

"Mortal  mind  assigns  character  and  type  to  disease"  400  (17,  18). 

"The  time  approaches  when  mortal  mind  will  forsake  its  corporeal, 
structural  and  material  basis"  402  (9,  10).  (Mind,  "myth"  for- 
sake"!) 

"Sometime  it  will  be  learned  that  mortal  mind  constructs  the 
mortal  body  and  with  its  own  materials"  402  (14,  15).  (Mind, 
"myth,"  constructs!) 

"Mortal  mind  is  constantly  producing  on  mortal  body  the  results 
of  false  opinion"  403  (16). 

"The  human  mind  produces  disease"  403  (26).  ("Myth"  pro- 
duces"!) 

"Lust,  malice,  and  all  sorts  of  evil  are  diseased  beliefs"  404  (10). 
("BeUefs"  of  the  "myth"  "mortal  mind"!) 

"All  that  we  term  sin,  sickness  and  death  is  comprised  in  a  be- 
lief in  matter"  278  (28). 

"Insist  that  health  is  the  everlasting  fact,  and  sickness  the  tem- 
poral falsity"  412  (23). 

"Break  the  dream  of  material  senses"  412  (17).  "Nothing  is 
matter"  113  (18). 

"Sin,  sickness  and  death  are  the  vague  realities  of  human  con- 
clusions" 297  (31,  32). 

By  all  the  foregoing  Christian  Science  afiirms  that  matter  is  a 
myth,  that  sin,  sickness  and  death  are  all  myths,  that  human  intelli- 
gence is  a  myth,  that  mortal  mind  is  a  myth,  that  man's  material 
body  is  a  myth,  that  human  life  is  a  myth,*  that  human  pleasure  is  a 
myth,  and  that  pain  is  a  myth.  We  certainly  have  as  good  reason 
at  least  to  believe  that  the  book,  Science  and  Health,  and  Christian 
Science  and  the  mother  of  Christian  Science  are  all  myths. 

*Just  so,  if  "God  is  All,  and  there  is  no  other  consciousness." 

Christian  Science  as  It  Is. 


<<   ^^    O-CALLED  mortal  mind  is  a  myth"  152  (1).   - 

** Mortal  mind  perpetuates  its  own  thoughts"  399  (18). 
** Matter,  the  inanimate  substratum  of  mortal  mind" 
243   (22). 

"Substratum"  of  "so-called  mortal  mind,"  "myth"! 

"Mortal  body  and  mind  are  one,  and  that  one  is  called  man" 
250  (14). 

"Matter  is  unknown"  280  (1). 

"Mortal  existence  is  a  dream,  it  has  no  real  entity,  but  saith,  *It  is 
I'  "  250  (7). 

"A  sick  body  is  evolved  from  sick  thoughts  believed."  "Evil, 
disease  and  death  proceed  from  false  beliefs"  260  (20). 

Human  mind,  which  does  not  exist,  has  beliefs! 

God,  the  only  Spirit,  the  only  consciousness,  has  evil,  disease, 
death  and  false  beliefs. 

Do  you  relish  such  foolishness?  If  so  you  are  a  Christian  Sci- 
entist. 

"Never  born  and  never  dying,  it  were  impossible  for  man  to  fall 
from  his  high  estate"  258  (28). 

"Mortal  mind  rules  all  that  is  mortal"  400  (23). 

"Mortal  mind  and  body  combine  as  one"  409  (3). 

"Mortal  mind  needs  to  be  set  right"  382  (32).  Poor  mortal  mind! 

How  did  the  "myth"  ever  go  wrong? 

Notice  the  "myth,"  mortal  mind,  combines  with  the  "myth"  mor 
tal  body.    Will  you  know  yourself  hereafter? 

"We  must  leave  the  mortal  basis  of  belief  and  unite  with  the  one 
Mmd"  424  (7). 

What  possible  interest  can  either  God  or  the  "myth"  have  in 
uniting  a  "myth"  to  Him  who  is  "ALL"? 

If  "Matter  is  unknown"  280  (1)  and  if  "in  reality  there  is  no 
mortal  mind"  103  (29),  there  certainly  can  be  no  "mortal  basis  of 
belief"  either  to  leave  or  to  have.  Christian  Science  proceeds  fur- 
ther to  regale  us  with  the  declaration,  ' '  There  is  in  reality,  one  Mind 
only"  330  (23). 

The  same  so-called  Science  affirms  also  "The  one  Spirit  includes 
all  identities"  333  (31),  and  then  adds,  "Spirit  is  the  only  substance, 
the  invisible  and  indivisible  God"  335  (11). 

Has  Christian  Science  still  in  reserve  the  secret  process  by  which 
the  "myth"  "we,"  can  decrease  or  increase  the  only  Mind,"  "the 
only  Spirit,"  "ALL"?  How  can  the  "myth,"  "we,"  "unite"  with 
Him  who  "is  ALL"? 

The  stupendous  work  which  Christian  Scientists  have  assigned 
to  themselves  is  clearly  set  forth  in  the  following  statement  in  '  *  Sci- 
ence and  Health." 

"The  human  concepts  named  matter,  death,  disease,  sickness,  and 
sin  are  all  that  can  be  destroyed"  426  (30). 

Christian  Science  as  It  Is. 


Christian  Science  clearly  and  emphatically  affirms:  "There  is  no 
matter''  421  (17). 

''There  is  no  mortal  mind"  103  (29).  ''Man  is  incapable  of  sin" 
475  (26). 

"God  could  never  make  man  capable  of  sin"  480  (19). 

"Man  is  never  sick"  393  (29). 

"There  is  no  reality  in  death"  427  (8). 

Christian  Science  stands  for  the  statement:  "Mortal  mind  is  a 
myth"  152  (1). 

If  "there  is  no  mortal  mind,"  then,  certainly  human  concept  is  a 
myth. 

Then  "matter,  the  human  concept,"  is  nothing,  a  myth. 

And  also  "death,  the  human  concept"  is  a  myth. 

By  the  same  authority  "the  human  concept,  ^sease,"  is  a  myth. 

Sickness  and  sin  by  the  same  authority  and  same  logic  are  myths. 

Notice,  these  MYTHS  "are  all  that  can  be  destroyed." 

Christian  Science  is  on  earth  to  destroy  these  myths.  She  so  de- 
clares. Will  you  tell  me  that  God  has  any  voice  or  hand  or  part  in 
such  fool's  work?    You  know  better. 

' '  Man  has  no  mind  but  God ' '  319  ( 19) .  No  human  mind.  Of  course, 
then,  no  "human  concept." 

3  No  matter. 

4  No  death. 

5  No  disease 

6  No  sickness. 

7  No  sin. 

Christian  Scientist,  answer  me : 

If  you  destroy  the  "myth,  human  concept,"  what  have  you  de- 
stroyed?   Nothing. 

If  you  destroy  the  "myth,  mortal  mind, ' '  what  have  you  destroyed? 
Nothing. 

If  you  destroy  the  "myth,  matter,"  what  have  you  destroyed? 
Nothing. 

If  you  destroy  the  "myth,  death,"  what  have  you  destroyed? 
Nothing. 

If  you  destroy  the  "myth,  disease,"  what  have  you  destroyed? 
Nothing. 

If  you  destroy  the  "myth,  sickness,"  what  have  you  destroyed? 
Nothing. 

If  you  destroy  the  "myth,  sin,"  what  have  you  destroyed?  Noth- 
ing. 

How  much  less  will  there  be  when  you  have  destroyed  one  of  your 
m3rths?    Nothing. 

How  much  less  will  there  be  when  you  have  destroyed  all  of  your 
myths?    Nothing. 

Antichrist  has  given  herself  a  fool's  task,  the  work  of  destroying 
that  which  is  nothing. 

Sane  humanity  will  treat  her  folly  right  and  consign  it  to  oblivion. 

Christian  Science  as  It  Is. 


Cbristian  Science  anb  Sex 

^^  /ffl^ATTER  was  shown  to  be  belief  only"  321  (13). 

^jTl    ''What  is  termed  mortal  mind  is  not  Mind"  311  (3,  5). 

"The  mind  supposed  to  exist  in  matter,  or  beneath  a 
skull-bone,  is  a  myth"  281  (18). 

"Man  is  the  reflection  of  his  Maker,  he  is  not  subject  to  birth, 
growth,  maturity,  decay"  305  (28). 

"The  objects  cognized  by  the  physical  senses  have  not  the  reality 
of  substance.  They  are  only  what  [the  "myth"]  mortal  mind's 
belief  calls  them"  311  (26,27). 

"Gender  is  a  quality,  a  characteristic  of  mortal  mind,  not  mat- 
ter" 305  (13). 

"Gender  consists  of  Mind,  not  matter"  508  (14). 

In  Christian  Science,  Mind  capitalized  means  God.  So,  a  Chris- 
tian Scientist  is  supposed  to  believe  that  all  sex  is  in  God  and  not 
in  any  material  body.  Male  and  female,  then,  are  all  alike  to  the 
Christian  Scientist.  If  a  Christian  Scientist  actually  believes  "there 
is  no  matter,"  421  (18),  no  material  substance,  he  cannot  believe 
that  one  material  body  has  the  form  of  the  male  and  another  the 
form  of  the  female,  as  neither  is  supposed  to  have  any  material 
body  whatever. 

"Mortal  body  and  mind  are  one"  177  (8).  "Matter  or  body  is 
but  a  false  concept  of  mortal  mind"  177  (10). 

Thus  Christian  Science  afi&rms  that  the  material  body  is  only  a 
"false  concept"  of  the  "myth,"  mortal  mind. 

"From  first  to  last,  the  body  is  a  sensuous  human  concept"  177 
(13).  "Masculine,  feminine,  and  neuter  genders  are  human  con- 
cepts" 516  (31).  "There  is  no  such  thing  as  mortality,  nor  are 
there  properly  any  mortal  beings"  554  (4,  5). 

In  Christian  Science  the  fact  is  made  obvious  that  the  sinner  and 
the  sin  are  alike  simply  nothingness.  To  what  abandon  must  such 
illusions  lead!  Christian  Science  leads  to  results  worse  than  the 
fruits  of  Mormonism.  Will  you  help  to  prepare  mankind  for  the 
abolishment  of  marriage?  Will  you  help  to  strike  out  the  founda- 
tions of  civilized  society?  Will  you  assist  in  reducing  mankind  to 
a  level  lower  than  the  beasts?  Will  you  aid  in  the  utter  destruction 
of  the  human  race?  In  all  this  fiendish  work  you  can  be  a  promoter 
by  aiding  the  Christian  Scientists  in  affirming  "The  allness  of  God" 
and  the  "nothingness  of  matter,"  and  the  "nothingness  of  sin." 
Will  you  lend  yourself  to  a  work  so  inhuman  and  so  diabolical? 
I  hope  not. 

Christian  Science  as  It  Is. 


Christian  Science  is  ^alse 

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STATEMENT  in  Christian  Science  is  addressed  to  the 
fish  of  the  sea  or  the  birds  of  the  air  or  the  beasts  of  the 
field. 


Human  beings  buy  Christian  Science  literature  and  pay  for  it 
and  use  it  more  or  less.  Other  beings  or  creatures  have  not  been 
caught  so  doing. 

In  spite  of  all  the  Christian  Science  bombast  denying  the  reality 
and  existence  of  the  human  mind,  all  Christian  Science  literature  is 
addressed  in  fact  to  the  human  mind  and  to  nothing  else.  There- 
fore, there  is  human  mind  or  the  author  of  Christian  Science  is  in- 
sane. A  thousand  times  in  Science  and  Health,  she  capitalizes  the 
word  mind,  writing  it  "Mind,"  and  making  it  mean  God.  As  many 
other  times  she  uses  the  word  mind,  or  Mind,  where  it  cannot  pos- 
sibly mean  God  and  must  mean  human  mind.  For  example:  ** Be- 
lief locates  the  Mind  within  a  skull-bone."  Index,  page  643  of 
Science  and  Health  of  1891.  Is  her  double  and  contradictory  use 
of  Mind  the  result  of  clear-cut  insanity?  Or  is  it  the  fruit  of  shame- 
less dishonesty? 

In  either  case  she  shows  Christian  Science  to  be  unfit  for  sane 
human  beings. 

Further:  ''Finite  belief  [human  belief]  would  compress  Mind, 
God,  which  is  infinite,  beneath  a  skull-bone,"  Science  and  Health, 
page  280  (9-11). 

In  this  she  slanders  humanity  and  perpetrates  another  Christian 
Science  falsehood.  Sane  human  beings  do  not  claim  that  the  "infi- 
nite Mind,  God,"  is  beneath  or  inclosed  within  a  skull-bone.  Evi- 
dently truth  does  not  serve  the  purposes  of  Christian  Science. 

We  have  found  both  the  foundations  and  claims  of  Christian  Sci- 
ence to  be  falsehoods.  Christian  Science  without  falsehoods  would 
be  like  a  barrel  without  either  head  or  hoop.  Having  revamped  the 
word  mind  and  declared  "Mind  is  God,"  she  seeks  either  to  rob 
man  of  mentality  or  fool  him  into  the  stupid  notion  that  man  has 
no  human  mind.  In  many  ways  she  asserts  the  nothingness  of  hu- 
man mind. 

Christian  Science  as  It  Is. 


There  is  no  mistaking  her  meaning  on  this  point.  Look  at  one  of 
her  preposterous  declarations:    ''Man  has  no  mind  but  God." 

The  statement,  "Man  has  no  mind  but  God,"  originated  in  some 
mind. 

God  is  not  the  author  of  this  statement  for  God  does  not  lie. 

The  mother  of  the  statement,  "Man  has  no  mind  but  God,"  has 
a  mind. 

Is  she  human  or  demon?    Which? 

//  she  is  human,  man  Jms  human  mind.    She  proves  it. 

If  she  is  demon,  there  is  "everlasting  fire  prepared  for  the  devil 
and  his  messengers."    Matt.  25:41. 

Every  statement  in  the  Bible  is  addressed  to  the  human  mind  and 
is  contemplated  by  human  mind.  If  any  part  of  contents  of  the 
Bible  was  not  for  human  consideration  such  part  would  not  have 
been  written. 

Indeed,  unless  there  is  human  mind  the  entire  Bible  must  be  a 
ridiculous  farce.  More,  every  written  and  printed  statement  in 
the  Bible  and  out  of  it  proclaims  the  reality  of  human  mind. 

Nothing  contains  nothing.  A  nonentity  knows  nothing.  A  mind 
that  is  so  far  off  that  it  denies  its  own  existence  cannot  claim  with 
any  degree  of  consistency  either  to  publish  or  teach  or  know  any- 
thing whatever.    You  know  this. 

All  through  the  earthly  ministry  of  Jesus  Christ,  He  addressed 
His  teachings  to  human  minds. 

Claiming  that  "So-called  mortal  mind  is  a  myth,"  Christian 
Science  would  make  Jesus  Christ  a  fool  addressing  a  nonentity, 
yes,  countless  nonentities!  In  the  last  two  thousand  years  the  gos- 
pel of  Christ  has  been  preached  world  wide  to  countless  millions  of 
human  beings.    This  has  been  done  by  command  of  Jesus  Christ. 

If  "Man  has  no  mind  but  God,"  as  Christian  Science  so  insanely 
affirms,  how  utterly  foolish  Christ  would  be  to  command,  "Preach 
the  gospel  to  every  creature"  and  "make  disciples,"  when  no  dis- 
ciple and  no  creature  has  either  material  body  or  human  mind! 
Christ  could  not  so  act  the  fool. 

The  colossal  foolishness  of  undertaking  to  teach  nonentities  is  the 
Christian  Science  job. 

Civilized  humanity  knows  and  admits  that  the  Bible,  addressed 
to  human  mind,  is  the  most  useful,  the  most  valuable  of  all  books. 

Has  the  Bible  been  shown  to  be  a  farce?  Has  Jesus  Christ  been 
shown  to  be  a  fool?  No.  Neither  has  ever  been  done.  Well,  both 
must  be  done  before  Christian  Science  can  be  shown  to  be  true. 

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^^ ^^    INITE  sense  has  no  true  appreciation  of  God  or  man*'  300 
(5,  7). 
If  this  he  true,  no  woman  in  Boston  should  have  any- 
thing to  say  ahout  either  God  or  man. 

''Erroneous  belief  is  mental  self-mesmerism*'  297  (12). 

If  "Man  has  no  mind  but  God"  319  (19,  20),  will  that  mindless 
woman  of  Boston  restore  God  from  ** erroneous  belief  and  "self- 
mesmerism"? 

"Change  the  belief"  297  (12). 

Will  the  "Mother  of  Christian  Science"  tell  us  how  to  "change 
the  belief"  of  "the  only  Mind"? 

"A  belief  fulfills  its  own  illusive  conclusions"  297  (31). 

Will  the  mere  myth,  the  mere  nothing,  of  Boston  administer  an 
emetic  to  the  "only  Mind"  and  so  relieve  Him  of  "erroneous  belief" 
and  so  prevent  Him  from  reaching  "illusive  conclusions"? 

"Sin,  sickness,  and  death  are  the  vague  realities  of  human  con- 
clusions" 297  (31,  32). 

If  "God  is  All,  and  there  is  no  other  consciousness'  536  (8,  9), 
will  the  female  Boston  myth  so  treat  "the  only  consciousness"  as 
to  eliminate  from  Him  "the  vague  realities"  and  the  "human  con- 
clusions"? 

"False  belief  silences  *  voice  of  immutable  harmony"  298   (4). 

So  sad  that  the  Only  Consciousness  should  lose  His  voice. 

How  did  He  acquire  "false  belief"?  So  sad  to  lose  His  "immut- 
able harmony"! 

"To  material  sense  the  unreal  is  the  real  until  this  sense  is  cor- 
rected by  Christian  Science"  298  (9,11). 

What!  Is  "mortal  sense''  unconscious?  Or  is  there  in  fact  some 
"other  consciousness,"  some  consciousness  other  than  "God,  AH"? 

In  either  case,  here  is  a  fatal  hole  directly  through  the  heart  of 
Christian  Science. 

Unconscious  "mortal  sense"  could  never  know  Christian  Science, 
nor  know  anything. 

If  God  be  the  Only  Consciousness,  He  can  have  no  use  for  Chris- 
tian Science. 

If  "God  is  All,  and  there  is  no  other  consciousness,"  there  has 
never  been  a  being  low  enough  to  produce  Christian  Science. 

If  there  ever  was  such  a  thing  as  Christian  Science,  Christian  Sci- 
ence is  DEAD. 

"Spiritual  sense,  contradicting  the  material  sense,"  etc.,  298  (12). 

If  you  can  do  so  without  fatal  cramps,  think  for  a  moment  of  the 
Christian  Science  rot,  the  "spiritual  sense"  of  "the  only  Mind"  con- 
tradicting the  "material  sense"  of  the  Only  Consciousness!! 

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^*  ^ff^O  HIMSELF,  mortal  and  material  man  seems  to  be  sub- 
it\      stance"  301   (9). 

^U/  Is  "mortal  and  material  man"  God?    No.    Christian 

Science  declares  "there  is  no  other  consciousness."  It  declares  this 
of  God.  Christian  Science,  therefore,  assumes  that  man  is  uncon- 
scious. It  declares  "Mortal  mind  is  a  myth"  and  "Man  has  no 
mind  but  God"  319  (19). 

A  mind  which  is  nothing  can  neither  be  deceived  nor  know 
anything  whatever.  Man  has  mind.  Man  is  conscious.  Man  does 
know.  Therefore,  the  contrary,  that  which  is  called  Christian  Sci- 
ence, is  false. 

"Delusions  arise  from  the  false  testimony  of  material  sense" 
301   (28). 

So,  undeniably,  "false  testimony"  comes  from  God,  the  Only 
Consciousness,  or  from  the  mere  nothing,  "the  myth,  mortal  mind," 
or  Christian  Science  LIES. 

"Mortal  belief  is  all  that  will  ever  be  lost"  302  (16). 

Can  the  mere  nothing,  the  "myth,  mortal  mind,"  have  any- 
thing to  lose? 

Certainly  not.  The  "myth,  mortal  mind,"  could  have  no  "be- 
lief to  lose." 

Why,  of  course  not.  But  CHRISTIAN  SCIENCE  HAS  LOST 
ITS  JOB. 

"God  is  the  only  Mind  governing  man"  308  (7). 

"The  mortal  dreams,  i.  e.,  birth,  growth,  maturity,  decay,  are 
of  human  origin,  not  divine"  305  (28,  29). 

Decay  is  real.  Maturity  is  real.  Growth  is  real.  Birth  is  real. 
We  know  these  are  realities. 

Christian  Science  asks  us  to  believe  that  these  realities  were 
produced  by  mind,  mortal  mind,  a  "myth,"  which  never  existed. 

Can  you  accommodate  the  old  lady?  Not  if  you  are  of  sound 
mind. 

If  "Jesus  knew  of  but  one  Mind"  315  (6),  and  if  "mind  never 
enters  the  finite"  536  (2),  and  if  "the  Divine  Mind  controls  man 
and  man  has  no  mind  but  God"  319  (19,  20),  then  undeniably,  all 
ideas,  good  and  bad,  and  all  errors,  sins,  and  crimes  are  rightly 
chargeable  to  "the  all-knowing,  all-acting  intelligence,  God"  587 
(5.  8). 

If  "The  one  Spirit  includes  all  identities"  333  (31),  and  if 
"Nothing  possesses  reality  except  the  divine  Mind"  331  (12),  and 
if  "There  is  in  reality  one  Mind  only,  because  there  is  but  one  God" 
330  (23),  how  could  the  All-wise,  Omniscient,  Omnipotent,  All-in- 
clusive God,  the  only  Mind,  ever  become  so  abnormal  as  to  need 
to  have  an  old  lady  fling  half  a  million  copies,  more  or  less,  of  the 
book,  Science  and  Health,  at  his  head?  How  could  He?  He  never 
did. 

There  is  no  such  god  as  Christian  Science  pictures. 

Your  knowledge  and  good  sense  should  keep  you  from  believ- 
ing the  claims  of  Christian  Science. 

Christian  Science  as  It  Is. 


Christian  Science  Haainst  the  Bible 

Christian  Science: 


Sacred  Scriptures: 
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Sabred  Scripture: 


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Sacred  Scriptures: 


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^'Nothing  is  matter"  113  (18).  ''There  is  no 
matter"  421  (17).  ''There  can  be  no  matter" 
75  (11). 

"In  the  beginning  God  created  the  heaven  and 
the  earth."     Gen.  1:1. 

"To  believe  in  sin  is  death,"  Science  and 
Health  of  1891,  page  642. 

"Sin  is  belief  in  matter"  278  (28).  "Man  is 
incapable  of  sin"  475  (26).  "God  could  never 
make  men  capable  of  sin"  480  (19).  "Man 
cannot  depart  from  holiness"  475  (29). 

"All  have  sinned  and  come  short  of  the  glory 

of  God."  Rom.  3:23. 

"All  unrighteousness  is  sin."  1  John  5:17. 

"Sickness  is  a  belief,"    Science  and  Health  of 

1904,  page  493   (18). 

"Sickness  is  an    illusion."    Science  and  Health 

of  1901,  page  A77   (18). 

Belief  is  illusion! 

"Sickness  is  unknown  to  Truth"  184  (4). 

"Man  is  never  sick"  393  (29). 

"They  brought  unto  Him  all  sick  people." 
Matt.  4:24. 

"Jesus  went  about  all  Galilee  *  healing  all 
manner  of  sickness  and  all  manner  of  disease 
among  the  people. ' '    Matt.  4 :23. 

"Death  is  unknown  to  Truth"  184  (4).  "It 
is  the  lie  of  life "584  (9). 

"Death  is  an  illusion  for  there  is  no  death," 
S.  and  H.  of  1891,  p.   563  (6). 

"It  is  appointed  unto  men  once  to  die."    Heb. 

9:27. 

"The  dead  in  Christ  shall  rise  first."    1  Thess. 

4:16. 


Christian  Science:       "Man  co-exists  with  God"  120  (5) 


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Sacred  Scriptures: 


Christian  Scien  ce : 


Sacred  Scriptures: 


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Sacred  Scriptures: 

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Sacred  Scriptures: 

Christian  Science: 
Sacred  Scriptures: 


''And  the  Lord  God  formed  man  of  the  dust  of 

the  ground."    Gen.  2:7. 

' '  So  God  created  man  in  his  own  image. '  *    Gen. 

1:27. 

"As  for  man,  his  days  are  as  grass,  as  the  flower 

of  the  field  so  he  flourisheth."    Psalm  103:15. 

"God  is  not  a  person"       Science  and  Health 

1891,  index  page  634. 

"God  is  infinite  personality." 

"God  is  identical  with  nature." 

"God  is  all,  no  room  for  more." 

Science  and  Health  of  1891,  index  page  605. 

"His  dear  Son,  who  is  the  image  of  the  invis- 
ible God."    Col.  1:15. 

"The  express  image  of  His  person."  Hebrews 
1:3. 

"Woman  perceived  this  spiritual  idea  *  *  in 
infant  form"  29   (28). 

"The  Virgin-mother  conceived  this  spiritual 
idea  of  God  and  gave  to  her  ideal  the  name  of 
Jesus"  29   (17). 

"She  brought  forth  her  first  bom  son,   and 
wrapped  Him  in  swaddling  clothes  and  laid 
Him  in  a  manger."    Luke  2:7. 
"A  body  hast  thou  prepared  me."    Heb.  10.5. 

"Miracles  are  impossible"  83  (12). 

"This  beginning  of  miracles  did  Jesus  in  Cana 
of  Galilee  *  *  and  His  disciples  believed  on 
Him."    John  2:11. 

"The  material  blood  of  Jesus  was  no  more  effi- 
cacious to  cleanse  from  sin  when  it  was  shed 
upon  the  'accursed  tree,'  than  when  it  was  flow- 
ing in  his  veins"  25  (6-8). 

"Without  shedding  of  blood  is  no  remission." 
Hebrews  9:22. 

"The  blood  of  Jesus  Christ,  His  Son,  cleanseth 
us  from  all  sin. ' '  1  John  1 :7. 


Christian  Science  as  It  Is. 


Christian  Science: 

Sacred  Scriptures: 

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Sacred  Scriptures: 
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Sacred  Scripture: 

Christian  Science: 

Sacred  Scripture: 
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Sacred  Scriptures: 


"Resurrection:  Spiritualization  of  thought" 
593   (9). 

''His  reappearance  in  idea,'*  Science  and  Health 
0/1891,/).  348  (5). 

''Jesus  saith,  It  is  I  myself;  handle  me  and  see; 
for  a  spirit  hath  not  flesh  and  bones,  as  ye  see 
me  have. ' '    Luke  24 :39. 

"Another  illusive  personification,  named  Sa- 
tan" 187  (11,  12). 

"Satan  himself  is  transformed  into  an  angel  of 
light."  2  Cor.  11:14. 

"Audible  prayer  is  apt  to  hinder  growth,"  S. 
and  H.  of  1891,  p.  635. 
"God  is  not  influenced  by  man," 
Science  and  Health  of  1904,  7  (21). 

' '  Watch  y  e,  therefore,  and  pray  always. ' '    Luke 

21:36. 

"For  this  shall  every  one  that  is  godly  pray 

unto  Thee."    Psalm  32:6. 

"The  claims  of  the  marriage  covenant  may  be 
relinquished  by  mutual  consent  or  legally  dis- 
solved," S.  and  H.  of  1893,  p.  297. 

"What  God  hath  joined  together*  let  no  man 
put  asunder."    Mark  10:9. 

"My  discovery,  new  lines"  108  (30). 
"A  woman  learned  this,  that  corporeal  sense  is 
the  serpent"  533  (31). 

"She  is  first  to  abandon  the  belief  in  the  ma- 
terial origin  of  man." 

"This  enables  woman  to  be  first  to  interpret 
the  Scriptures  in  their  true  sense"  534  (1,  6). 

"I  suffer  not  a  woman  to  teach."  I  Tim.  2:12. 
"Though  we,  or  an  angel  from  heaven,  preach 
any  other  gospel  unto  you  *  *  let  him  be 
accursed."    Gal.  1:8. 


Christian  Science  as  It  Is. 


Christian  Science: 
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Sacred  Scripture: 


Christian  Science: 
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Christifin  Science: 
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Christian  Science: 
Sacred  Scripture: 


''The  personality  of  Jesus  not  to  be  worshiped.'* 
Science  and  Health  of  1891,  index  page  615. 

"At  the  name  of  Jesus  every  knee  should  bow." 
Philippians  2:10. 

''Dreams,  the  belief  of  having  died  and  left  a 
material  body,  and  the  belief  of  still  living  in 
an  organic,  material  body." 
"When  the  belief  of  life  in  matter  is  gone,  the 
mortal  who  has  held  it  dissolves  with  it,  and 
never  returns  to  the  old  condition." 
Science  and  Health  of  1891,  240  (5-11). 

"The  rocks  rent;  and  the  graves  were  opened; 
and  many  of  the  bodies  of  the  saints  which  slept 
arose,  and  came  out  of  their  graves  after  his 
resurrection,  and  went  into  the  holy  city  and 
appeared  unto  many."    Matt.  27:51-53. 

"The  Bible  was  my  only  textbook"  110  (13,  14). 

"Handling  the  word  of  God  deceitfully."  2 
Cor.  4:2. 

"Christ  was  incorporeal"  334  (9). 

"Every  spirit  that  confesseth  not  that  Jesus 
Christ  is  come  in  the  flesh  is  not  of  God,  and 
this  is  that  spirit  of  antichrist."    1  John  4:3. 
"We  have  known  Christ  after  the  flesh."     2 
Cor.  5:16. 

' '  God  was  manifest  in  the  flesh,  justified  in  the 
Spirit,  seen  of  angels,  preached  unto  the  Gen- 
tiles, believed  on  in  the  world,  received  up  into 
glory."    I  Tim.  3:16. 


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and  shall 


' '  Many  shall  come  in  my  name    * 

deceive  many."     Matt.  24:5. 

' '  Christ  is  the  head  of  the  church. ' '    Eph.  5 :23. 

"Father  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  of  whom  the 

whole  family  in  heaven  and  earth  is  named." 

Eph.  3:14,  15. 


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^^/Jl^i^HE  DIVINE  MIND  includes  all  action  and  volition,  and 

41       man  in  Science  is  governed  by  this  Mind'*  187  (22,  24). 

^^^  If  this  be  so,  there  can  be  no  "mortal  mind,"  "erring 

mind,"  and  all  Christian  Science  literature  is  out  on  a  fool's  errand. 

"The  belief  in  sin,"  "governs  the  so-called  man"  188  (4,  8). 

If  both  of  the  statements  from  Christian  Science,  given  above, 
are  true,  the  divine  Mind,  God,  who  "governs  man,"  has  "belief 
in  sin"  and  uses  it  to  govern  man.  The  Christian  Science  god  is 
certainly  not  omniscient  or  he  would  not  have  "false  belief,"  or 
which  is  the  same,  "belief  in  sin,"  since  to  Christian  Science  there 
is  no  sin. 

Unless  the  "only  Mind,"  the  Christian  Science  god,  is  more 
stupid  than  the  average  human  being,  he  would  never  present  him- 
self  as  such  a  monstrosity. 

"The  human  mortal  mind,  by  an  inevitable  perversion,  makes 
all  things  start  from  the  lowest  instead  of  from  the  highest  mortal 
thought"  189  (16,  18). 

How  can  a  nonentity,  "human  mortal  mind,"  "make  perver- 
sion"?   It  never  did. 

Christian  Science  lies  about  "human  mortal  mind."  Yes,  or  its 
writer  was  insane. 

When  did  a  "myth,"  a  nonentity,  "make  all  things  start,"  or 
make  anything  start?    Never. 

Can  a  mind  which  is  "myth,"  nothing,  have  either  "lowest" 
or  "highest"  thought? 

Certainly  not.  A  mind  which  never  existed  never  had  any 
thoughts  whatever. 

"Spirit  can  not  believe  in  God.    Spirit  is  God"  192  (11). 

If  spirit  can  not  believe  in  god,  then  spirit  can  not  believe  in 
Christian  Science  nor  can  it  believe  in  anything  whatever. 

Oh,  imbecility.  Christian  Science.    Why  did  you  ever  appear? 

What  greater  insult  than  the  claims  of  Christian  Science  could 
by  any  possibility  be  thrust  at  humanity? 

Notice  here  some  of  its  transparent  and  outrageous  fallacies : 

"There  is  not  finite  soul  or  spirit  466  (21). 

"Man  has  no  mind  but  God"  319  (19). 

"There  is  but  one  mind  or  intelligence"  216  (12). 

"God,  Spirit,  being  all,  nothing  is  matter"  113  (18). 

"Christian  Science  rests  on  the  conception  of  God  as  all  Life, 
substance  and  intelligence"  185  (18,  20). 

Yes,  rests  on  the  self-evident  falsehood,  "all  intelligence,  all 
substance  and  all  life  are  God.'' 

If  Christian  Science  were  true,  how  much  human  intelligence 
or  human  life  could  there  be?    None  whatever. 

If  Christian  Science  were  true,  man  never  could  have  known 
either  Christian  Science  or  humanity. 

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